VILLAGE OF OSSINING MUNICIPAL BUILDING 16 Croton Avenue Ossining, N. Y. 10562 (914) 941-3554 FAX (914) 941-5940 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christina Papes 914-941-3554 Ossining MATTERS Education Foundation 10 th Annual 5K Run/2 Mile Walk! We hope you’ll join hundreds of Ossining MATTERS supporters, on September 8 th for our 10 th annual run/walk. Check-in and register at the Ossining Community Center, 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. Run begins at 9 a.m. Free refreshments will be provided. All ages are welcome. Children twelve and under must be accompanied by an adult. A kids’ festival for our youngest runners and walkers will follow the race. The event will be timed by Albany Running Exchange Event Productions (AREEP) www.areep.com. Raise funds for the Ossining MATTERS Education Foundation to benefit Ossining’s public schools. Enter the timed 5K Run, or walk the trail at your own pace, along the historic Old Croton Aqueduct. Run begins at 9 a.m. All ages. To register or for more information go to www.ossiningmatters.org. Ossining Public Library Event: Thursday, September 6 at 7 p.m. Thursday Evening Book Discussion Group Mayhem in the Gilded Age will be the theme of the Fall series of the Thursday Evening Book Discussion. The first meeting will discuss, “Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President,” by Candice Millard (2011). Copies of this selection are available at the Information Desk on the main floor. For more information on this book discussion please call (914) 941-2416 ext. 320. Free. In the Second Floor Conference Room. Enjoy Ossining! Tasty Port Wine & Spirits is getting together with Josie's International School of Dance at their store at 127 Main Street, Friday the 7th from 7-9pm They will be doing a simple wine tasting on Argentina's Malbec and Josie will be showing some Tango steps. Join them for Malbec and Tango Samples! http://tastyportwine.com This Saturday, come gather ‘round at the Ossining Farmers Market for Storytelling Hour with Historic Hudson Valley, a local non-profit dedicated to celebrating our area’s history. The event, from 11 am to noon, will be a sneak preview of their annual “Celebrate Children’s Book Day,” to be held at Washington Irving’s Sunnyside estate in Tarrytown on September 15 th . This week the Ossining Farmers Market will also host two day vendors: the Bombay Emerald Chutney Company with their selection of fresh, small-batch Indian chutneys and Hudson River Apiaries, a delicious local honey maker. As always, we’re open from 8:30 am to 1:00 pm at the corner of Main and Spring Streets in downtown Ossining. Join your neighbors and fill your baskets with local produce, cheeses, baked goods, breads, pickles, meats, and specialty goods. HomeStay Announces Fifth Annual Visit of Yokohama Commercial High School to Westchester County HomeStay, an organization devoted to finding space in Westchester County for visiting companies and groups, today announced the fifth annual visit of Yokohama Commercial High School to Westchester County, on October 12-14, 2012. Japanese high school students from Yokohama Shogyo will be visiting as part of a program titled, “The World At Your Door!” organized by Ossining-based HomeStay. Thirty- eight foreign teenagers will stay with American hosts selected by the organization. HomeStay president, Beverly Harris, said “The program offers local families and their guests the unique chance to explore and appreciate each other’s culture and daily life. The visits are a lot of fun and produce lasting memories and friendships.” She went on to describe some of HomeStay’s previous exchanges including a visit by 26 young people from Sendai, near the Fukushima nuclear facility. HomeStay was asked to arrange host families for a two-week stay. The students took ESL classes at Pace University and created the NYC event, “3/11 Survivors,” about the earthquake and tsunami that struck them. Openings are available for hosts for future HomeStay visits. Hosting families can consist of a single adult, a couple, parents with kids or other combination. Some spaces may become available for this October as well. Schools and organizations can utilize the program as a fundraiser. For more information, email HomeStay at [email protected] or call 914 941 4347. HomeStay is a real estate brokerage founded in 1998 to specialize in arranging temporary housing in Westchester & Putnam counties. It serves domestic and international organizations, corporations and individuals seeking to relocate into the metro New York area, and to date has made nearly 2000 placements. “The World At Your Door!” is HomeStay’s newest program. Do you enjoy singing in 4 part harmony? Do you go to musical theater and would rather be on the stage than in the audience? Come join the Old Mill Singers! They are an amateur chorus of men & women singing a mixed repertoire of classical and popular tunes. They have celebrated their 40 th anniversary and look forward to many more years of entertaining the community in twice yearly public performances and at nursing homes. Rehearsals for their December holiday show begin after Labor Day. We rehearse at St. Paul's on The Hill in Ossining on Tuesday evenings. Visit us at www.oldmillsingers.org or call and leave a message at 914-762-3765 (please mention the Old Mill Singers.) As Far As I Can See a new show by Mark R. Friedman, artist & photographer at the Ossining Public Library during the month of September. [email protected] , 762-7689, http://mark-friedman.com Congratulations to Supervisor Susanne Donnelly, this year’s recipient of the Ossining Lions Club Uplinger Award in recognition of her outstanding community service and dedication to helping others. The Briarcliff Manor Public Library Book Sale will take place on Friday, September 7 from 12 noon - 8 pm, Saturday, September 8th from 9 am - 6 pm, and Sunday, September 9th from 12 noon - 4 pm. For more information please visit http://www.briarcliffmanorlibrary.org/ or http://www.bmplfriends.org/ . We hope to see you there! Saw Mill River Audubon Events: Saturday, September 8, 9:00 am - Second Saturday Walk at Brinton Brook This month’s second Saturday walk will be part of the Hudson River Valley Ramble celebration taking place throughout the Hudson Valley several September weekends. On this Saturday, September 8, they will explore the trails of our Brinton Brook Sanctuary for 2 hours and then offer the option for a 1.5 hour extension of our walk on the Village of Croton-on-Hudson’s Highland Trail. Registration requested for this month's Second Saturday walk only because space is limited. Call 914-666-6503 or email our office at [email protected] by Thursday, September 6. More information on other Hudson River Valley Ramble events available at hudsonrivervalleyramble.com . Note: second Saturday walks at Brinton Brook will continue all year! There is a weekly half-hour contemplative prayer service every Thursday at the chapel at The Mariandale Retreat and Conference Center at 11:30 am. It is open to the public. For more information call 914-941-4455 or visit our website, www.mariandale.org The Digital Darkroom Presented at The Ossining Public Library By Mark R Friedman, Artist, Photographer These classes present a technical overview of what to do with your digital picture. In some cases, they’ll be quite advanced, in others – just a view from 30,000 feet. You won’t need your camera, but DO bring a laptop. You can download free demo copies of Lightroom and Photoshop from Adobe. If you have them on hand, you’ll be able to follow along. I will attempt to answer any question you have at any time via email: [email protected] . Also, see his site: http://mark-friedman.com . September 8 - Special time: 2 – 4 PM - Reception for Mr. Friedman’s show at the library (in the Gallery) September 15 - 1 – 3 PM 2nd Floor Conference Room - Color Spaces, Color Management and the Digital Workflow part 1 September 29 1 – 3 PM 2nd Floor Conference Room - Color Spaces, Color Management and the Digital Workflow part 2 October 13 1 – 3 PM 2nd Floor Conference Room - Overview of Lightroom 4 October 27 1 – 3 PM 2nd Floor Conference Rm - Overview of Photoshop CS6 for photographers November 10 1 -3 p.m. 2nd Floor Conference Room – Working in Layers November 24 1 – 3 p.m . 2 nd Floor Conference Room – Simple Corrections December 1 1 -3 p.m. 2nd Floor Conference Room – Sharpening December 15 1- 3 p.m . 2 nd Floor Conference Room – Third-Party Plugins Grandparent’s Day Marketplace on Sept 8 th 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. at Bethel Ossining (rain or shine), 17-19 Narragansett Avenue, Ossining. For more information call 914-739-6700 x 220 Free parking. Free admission. Hudson Chorale Accepting New Members in September After a thrilling live performance of Paine’s Mass in D in May, Hudson Chorale is welcoming new members in preparation for its 2012-2013 season. Singers in all voice parts (SATB) are invited to join Westchester’s largest mixed-voice choral group for an exciting January 26, 2013 concert. It will feature an eclectic program for chorus and strings including Mozart’s Missa Brevis in D Minor and excerpts from Porgy and Bess , with a little Mendelssohn, Sondheim and Whitacre thrown in. The May 11, 2013 concert will be an all-Beethoven program with full orchestra featuring the Mass in C and other pieces. The chorus’ goal is to provide both audience members and singers with the best possible experience in choral singing, offering a repertoire that ranges from the great masterpieces to contemporary compositions.